The link to California's Secretary of State changing election results.

[Robin Hood]

http://vote2003.ss.ca.gov/Returns/summary.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. ??????????

they are reporting on the poll results as precincts report in

[Robin Hood]

2. Yes.

And it shows you how close this is. Will we wake up to a Davis Governor?

[punpirate]

3. How is it close?

With 76% of precincts reporting, there's a 515K, 9-point spread in favor of recall, with Ahnold leading the contenders by 16 points.

California just brought back Pete Wilson.

[Robin Hood]

4. There's still 24% left to report.

A lot can happen in 24% points.

[arcos]

7. nothing will happen...

there's only 20% left... and NO would have to win the overwhelming majority of that 20% left in order to get over a 9% lead. Nearly impossible.

[Robin Hood]

9. He only needs to gain 4%.

Hope. We need hope.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Oh I am still expecting turns,

but I don't know

[YourDad]

5. frightening

this is frightening, america is not america anymore

[Robin Hood]

6. I don't think that we're in Kansas anymore Toto.

No, it sure doesn't seem like it.

[haymaker]

17. Hahahahahaha

Clever. AM I the only one?

[AP]

10. Does the turnout look unusually low for LA Cty and Alameda?

I just did a mental calcluation--it looks like LA Cty might come about 300K short of what you'd expect (a little over two million). Alameda looks short by 150K.

[Robin Hood]

11. I was wondering about the numbers as well.

The media whores kept talking about the massive turn out, a historic turn out. But I see no evidence of that. If anything, it looks like a poor turn out considering that Davis got 8 million votes last year.

[AP]

19. Davis got about 3.5 million with about 7.5 million voting in 02.

Which is more than either Arnold or the yes vote's getting today, right?

In '98, he got 4.8 mil of about 8.1 million votes.

[joshcryer]

12. Alameda does seem to have a ridiculous turnout, I think it'll turn around.

However, I don't see those 500k or so votes being breached. We lost. It's undeniable.

[Joe the Revelator]

16. can someone confirm for me

that the vast majority of the absentee ballots have already been counted?

[0rganism]

18. I wonder if the bulk of provisionals were in LA?

and then there's the Touchscreen Miracle happening in Alameda.

[joshcryer]

13. Alameda and LA county need huge turnouts.

But it did jump a precentage point.

[punpirate]

14. With 90.4% of precincts reporting...

... the SoS system crashed. It's timing out repeatedly after 1:50 a.m. PDT. At that time, yes on recall was 54.2% and no was 45.8%, with a total of 6,950,000 votes.

California, get used to Governor Ahnold. You wanted him, you got `im.

[AP]

15. I'm really curious about those Alameda and LA Cty votes...but the site

stopped working.

I also want to see if Arnold gets more votes than the No vote gets.



I guess it's bedtime...for democracy.

[Snazzy]

21. Site cut off?

Site went down for me too. Last report at 1:50 CA Time.

I was watching the numbers in Excel for about an hour. These were last posted


Arnold
3,763,848
54.17%

No Arnold
3,184,259
45.83%

(579,589 vote Dif.)

6,948,107 TOTAL VOTES
90.4% reporting

Tech note--apparently site is not down, just can't get there from my ISP anymore. I was able to get there now via a third party site (Sam Spade).

[Snazzy]

22. Update

Site back up at around 2:40. Same results from 1:50 posted.

[shance]

20. You think we really wanted him? You think this was legitimate?

Curious Pun - I respect your opinion.